Challenge your mapping skills! Interpret a map by plotting a trip. Have a classmate try to figure out your destination!
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Divide into small groups. Each group needs a map of your community or even another part of the world that you have studied. Decide where you will travel from and to.
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On an individual dry-erase board, draw the major routes needed to take you there with Crayola Dry-Erase Markers. Pay particular attention to turns.
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Think about landmarks you pass on the way. Draw them (or symbols of them) on your map. These are clues for your classmates.
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Take turns figuring out the beginning and ending destinations for each other’s directions.
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